Classic note to the kids, from the 30+ crews - Page 2

motordavid · #11 03-27-2010, 03:17 PM

I agree with Foomph, Juanted & Thunder; they describe it well, though I am a generation older, even.

-On summer nights back in the MotorCity, we always were outside somewhere, playing until at least the streetlights came on,
which could be 9:30 PM+ in high summer. This was as pre-teens.

-We walked or rode our bicycles everywhere. A "day trip" to the lakes around Pontiac, 25 miles north of Detroit, was std fare
a couple times per week in summer.

-I mowed a dozen lawns a week, buck a lawn, for spending dough in Jr High, and caddied 4 summers, though I hated the game
then and did not touch a club.

-We had a "party line" on our rotary dial phone, eg 3 other people shared the "line".

-We played cowboys and indians, "war", "army", etc. and all of us were always trying to one up each other with the best new,
most realistic looking plastic gun(s). We routinely played with Daisy air rifles, often plugging up the barrel and shooting dirt clods
at each other.

-We had to be near death, in our parents' minds, to get a trip to the doc...

-I never, ever had any untoward advance by any perv of wacko...

It must be really different times today, or the pervs have multiplied like rabbits or, the media has put every parent on edge,
or today's parents are paranoid, or some combo of the above.

I loved every minute of being a kid, growing up in the '50s and early '60s.
GL, mD

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wallyx5 · #12 03-27-2010, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cmyX6go

It's amazing we're still alive. Car seats?!?!??! My grandmother (God rest her soul) had pots in the boxes the hospital sent us home in. YES....The hospital put you in a box and wrote your name, birth date, and weight on the box and that's how you came home from the hospital.

And you didn't dare come home and say you got in trouble in school. 'Cause you'd get your ass kicked big time. LITERALLY. I remember playing dead figuring if dad thought I was dead, he'd stop hitting me (I did deserve that beating).

Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour rocked.

That's hilarious! I remember getting in trouble at school again and dreading my dad coming home to regulate my butt with the belt. I put on like 6 pairs of under ware so when he laid into me it didn't hurt that much and I started laughing. Then he found out that I was padded and started on the legs. It still makes me laugh when I think about it.

Wagner I agree. I mean I had to actual walk to school, now days even if you live close to school there is a bus to pick you up.

sethro · #13 03-27-2010, 06:17 PM

When I turned 16 years old all I got was a new pair of running shoes. I was the happiest kid ever. Then...

This kid gets a 400HP Camero SS for his 16 birthday fml

YouTube - 2010 Camaro SS Birthday Surprise

motordavid · #14 03-27-2010, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sethro

...This kid gets a 400HP Camero SS for his 16 birthday fml

...

Incredible.
Hard to fathom "why"? I wonder if there is a follow up vid, with
baby face driving, getting tix, curbing it, crashing and, hopefully still alive.

Interesting how all the fam and friends bought into this fiasco
except for one of the gramps.

Thunder22 · #15 03-28-2010, 10:23 AM

So many things wrong about that video:

400HP in the hands of a 14 year old is a tragedy waiting to happen. Hopefully not.

Is the father dressed like the kid or vice versa?

"The best thing about giving expensive gifts is that you can take them away"
WTF kind of mentality is that for the father to have?

Quicksilver · #16 03-28-2010, 11:23 AM

IMO this 15 year old will miss all of the hands on experience
that comes from changing a huck-a-buck into a ride that expresses
one's personality. Back in my day girls loved it when a boy got
creative with his car and being seen in a ride that was cool was
the thing to do. Even a dork could get lucky.

At 16-18 kids in the neighborhood were taking hand me down
cars or getting them from the junk yard and fixing them up.
Some of the work was done at school. (They still had auto shop at school back then)
It took a while to finish a project but from my period came lowering cars,
reversing rims for the wide track look, cutting steering wheels in half, and moving the gear shift to the left side.

When those cars were finished it was a sense of pride for those
who put in the work, and they took care of them like it was the
last car they would ever own. Maybe kids still do that but I haven't
seen it going on.

FSETH · #17 03-28-2010, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Thunder22

So many things wrong about that video:

400HP in the hands of a 14 year old is a tragedy waiting to happen. Hopefully not.

Is the father dressed like the kid or vice versa?

"The best thing about giving expensive gifts is that you can take them away"
WTF kind of mentality is that for the father to have?

I agree it is completely nuts to give a 16-year old a car that nice and powerful. I do think the kid seemed genuinely appreciative though. He acted like this would never happen to him and not like he deserved or expected it. I think the Dad was basically telling him he would take the car away if he didn't behave. Nothing wrong with that, imo.

FSETH · #18 03-28-2010, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Quicksilver

IMO this 15 year old will miss all of the hands on experience
that comes from changing a huck-a-buck into a ride that expresses
one's personality. Back in my day girls loved it when a boy got
creative with his car and being seen in a ride that was cool was
the thing to do. Even a dork could get lucky.

I am sure this kid will do just fine at his highschool with girls liking his car.

bmwman3241 · #19 03-28-2010, 01:22 PM

I call BS on the Camaro thing. Just my opinion..

I am 20, and am happy I have what I do, and grew up the way I did. With my phones, and texting, and TV, and remotes, and *MY X5* and pretty much everything else.

Thunder22 · #20 03-28-2010, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bmwman3241

I call BS on the Camero thing. Just my opinion..

I am 20, and am happy I have what I do and grew up the way I did. With my phones, and texting, and TV, and remotes, and *MY X5* and pretty much everything else.

First off it's a CamAro. And what are you calling BS on?

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